Maybe a bit of actual scientific evidence to back the statements, instead of all this jabber being thrown around?

Especially in regards to systematic trading. What were the parameters? What time frame? How did you execute? For what duration?

The best one of all is "technical analysis doesn't work." Again, which indicator? What time frame? You are implying the EVERY technical indicator doesn't work, and you tested this? How did you go about testing this? We could spend an entire year discussing the premise of Bollinger Bands and whether its valid, and you're going to sit here and tell me ALL OF technical analysis doesn't work????

All of these empirical vagaries can be ignored, for they don't have a foot to stand on.

I WISH I HAD FOUND ELITE TRADER BEFORE I HAD SPENT
THOUSANDS ON WORTHLESS CRAP!

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Yes, but not everything works for everyone so you still need to keep trying because you never know if something that others dislike will not work for you. Is not Don Miller's stuff a good example of that? It works for you, even if others find it imperfect, at best. Yet, it's good to know if you deal with an honest vendor or if some stuff someone is trying to sell you is really worth its price, and in this respect ET is good, but so is misc.invest.futures. In fact, the latter is still better. ET is faster though.

Maybe a bit of actual scientific evidence to back the statements, instead of all this jabber being thrown around?

All of these empirical vagaries can be ignored, for they don't have a foot to stand on.

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In that case, you're absolutely right, Jim. Though there's nothing wrong with empiricism per se, the best one can do with one's conclusions is apply them to himself. Applying them to others requires a bit more rigor.

Unfortunately, specifics are a bit hard to come by around here, though there are a number of people willing to discuss details. Thus, when somebody says that something doesn't work, one's responses are limited, e.g., yes it does, you're absolutely right, etc. The option of applying the strategy to one's own charts in order to determine whether the somebody is correct or not isn't there since no details are provided.

I won't say there's gold here, but there's at least silver. Just keep looking for it.

The best one of all is "technical analysis doesn't work." Again, which indicator? What time frame? You are implying the EVERY technical indicator doesn't work, and you tested this? How did you go about testing this? We could spend an entire year discussing the premise of Bollinger Bands and whether its valid, and you're going to sit here and tell me ALL OF technical analysis doesn't work????

All of these empirical vagaries can be ignored, for they don't have a foot to stand on.
Jim

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Yes, THAT is what they are implying and YES, there IS a way to test it. Maybe I'll write a book about it when I'm old...